Student/Post-doc News

BME Doctoral Students win the Controlled Release Society-Illinois Student Chapter Annual Symposium Awards

Yen-Ling Lin and Scott H. Medina, third year PhD students working with Professor Mohamed E.H. El-Sayed in the Cellular Engineering & Nano-Therapeutics Laboratory (CENT LAB), received the First and Second Prize in the poster competition at the Controlled Release Society-Illinois Student Chapter Symposium, respectively. The symposium took place in Chicago on May 29 and featured multiple speakers from academia and pharmaceutical industry who shared their research work in the area of parental drug delivery. Yen-Ling presented a poster titled "Development of smart particles for enhanced intracellular delivery of therapeutic nucleic acids" showing her work on the development of stimuli-sensitive polymers that can effectively shuttle therapeutic nucleic acids past the endosomal membrane and into the cytoplasm of tumor cells for treatment of breast cancer. Scott's poster was titled "Uptake of N-acetyl galactosamine functionalized dendrimer carriers into hepatic cancer cells" and displayed his work along with Dr. Venkatesh Tekumalla, a postdoctoral fellow in CENT LAB, on the development of galactose-coated particles that can effectively bind to specific receptors displayed on the surface of hepatic cancer cells and trigger efficient internalization into these targeted cells.

Posted on June 2, 2009, 8:47 am